'Secretary of Evil', 97-year-old Nazi camp employee, is appealing his conviction for 10,505 murders

97-year-old Irmgard Furchner - dubbed the "Secretary of Evil" - was convicted at the final hearing of the 14-month trial in the Regional Court of 'Itzehoe on Tuesday, December 20

Irmgard Furchner appealed his conviction to the Supreme Criminal Court of Germany (

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A 97-year-old Nazi camp worker appealed her conviction after being given a two-year suspended prison sentence for aiding in the murder of 10,505 victims.

Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary of a Nazi SS death camp, was convicted in Itzehoe Regional Court on Tuesday last week following a 14-month trial.

But just days after the verdict, she appealed her conviction to Germany's supreme criminal court, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).

Furchner's defense attorneys and an attorney for a co-plaintiff reportedly appealed the verdict on Wednesday, December 28.

Following the appeal, a spokesperson for the Itzehoe Regional Court said, "The judgment is therefore not final."

Furchner worked as a secretary to SS commandant Paul Werner Hoppe of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi Germany (

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The spokesperson said the appeal could only relate to a review to determine whether the sentence was based on a breach of law and added that no new evidence would be presented.

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The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, said: "This criminal was lucky not to receive a prison sentence given the role she played in the deaths of more than 10 000 innocent victims."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 that specializes in tracking down Nazi war criminals from World War II.

Furchner's conviction would build on a German legal precedent set for more than a decade that allows people to be prosecuted as accomplices to murders in Nazi death camps, whether or not they participated in specific killings.